The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-07-14

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there are q large number in the northwest.
Inc commissioner after expressing sym.
pathy and promising what relief the Office
AN grant. says:
Settlers who are obliged to leav We their
claims ON account OF the drouth should be
prepared to account for their absence from
this cause when they made final proof;
cd until the law has been fully complied
with after their return to the land. Alb.
sence on account of climate reasons will
not imperil the claims II the fact is estab.
lished when proof is made. and il proof is
not attempted to be made in advance OF
the time when the residence, improve.
ments and cultivation required by law
can be satisfactorily shown.
The advance Of rs cents a ton on hard
coal July l has started d good deal oil
thinking among tho hiee consumers OF
The death Of John A. Winter Of Danger,
president OF the Percheron Norman Horse
company, and one of the most prominent
~citizens OF the state Of Colorado, was an
nounced as the result of catarrh OF the
stomach. It is now charged that Mr.. Win
ter's death was caused from arsenical
poisoning, and that there has been a crime
committed.
Under proposals opened by Col. G. B.
Penrose, chief commissary OF the depart
ment of Dakota, awards were made as fol.
lows: John s. Priedeman, 1900 pounds
OF hSrd bread: Henry Doerr, So, 900 cigars;
G.. +. kuhles, $4,000 cigars; G.. r. Mon
fort, 35, 900 cigars; Adam Fetsch. 20, 900
cigars. Mr.. James McKenna, who has been
q clerk in the quartermaster 3 department
Tor ~thirty-two years, resigned his position
at the army.
The prisoner arrested in Lansing, Mich,
as Henry McMunn or Matt Kennedy, who
was implicated in the Cleveland fur rob-
berry, claims to be Jessie B. Lamb, q farm
baud, and to have no connection with the
murder OF Hulligan. The Chicago police
think that he is not the guilty man.
The strikers OF Uniontown, Pa, resent
the introduction OF Pinkerton detectives
In that town for tbs protection Of non
union men
The Metropolitan hotel OF St. Paul is
sold at auction to Kalman & Benz for
$4,000. Its original cost was $165, 900.
DR.. McGlynn has been elected a delegate
to the National United Labor convention
at Syracuse, N. Y, Aug. 16.
The town of Clarendon, Pa, is destroyed
by an incendiary fire and q hotel pro-
prietor is arrested as the offender.
Judge Tovey Of Louisville, KY, has sol.
emnly decided that o widower isn't obliged
to maintain his mother. in-law.
SirDonald Smith has given q 81, 900 sill.
yer challenge cup to be rowed for by four
cared crews OF the Northwestern Rowing
association.
William Turl, q Philadelphia bookkeep-
er, has skipped with $4,000 Of his employ.
er's money.
Nellie Case, aged Is, of Waterbury,
Conn, pointed q pistol at a friend and
then at herself. The last time it went off,
and now Nellie is dead.
robber said to have caused a prominent
physician to be sentenced to State prison
In New York.
On Cherry creek, Madison county, Mont,
during the storm William Hunt and his
horse were both killed by lightning. Hunts
clothes were nearly all burned.
In the first six months OF 1886, 14S, 7O7
immigrants arrived in N. Y; first six months
OF 1887, 212,655. For the whole year of
1886 there were landed at Castle Gorden
SOC, 919 immigrants.
William Burriss, attorney at Buckeye
City, Ohio, was shot and killed by lack
Hibbitts. The killing was the result OF an
old feud. Hibbitts was arrested and Jailed
at Mount Vernon.
Mr.. Powderly, in O speech at Scranton,
Pa, said there was too much
immigration for the good Of labor, and
every immigrant should be able to show
hat he was self supporting for one year
before landing IN these shores.
Prof. Charles H. Grimley, accompanied
by q newspaper reporter, made q balloon
ascension from Lincoln Park, Portland,
Me. Ata height of 5000 feet the balloon
struck O westerly current and was carried
swiftly out to sea. An attempt was made
Dor, but without avail and the balloon de-
scended three miles from shore in Casco
bay. The men were dragged through the
water at a rapid rate for two miles when
they were rescued in an exhausted condi-
ton by the crew OF a yacht.
During a drill OF sappers at Jasz-B ereny,
capital OF J~aszygia, Hungary, a dynamite
cartridge exploded prematurely, killing
twenty-seven men and ~injuring forty-eight
others. OF the killed four were officers.
The soldiers were being drilled in the use OF
away q lighted fuse, which fell upona pack
ct OF dynamite. Many of the injured sol
der it is feared will die.
Three hundred and fifty new money Or
der offices nave been established by the
postmaster general. The following are
among them: Dakota: Armour, Eden,
| Glendale. Hartford, Leola, Mapleton,
| Minewaukan, Minot, Montrose, Pine Ridge
| agency, Roscoe. Iowa: Amish, Brooks,
Clarksville, Clearfield. sDonnelson, Elma,
Grant City, Pedrick, Botsein, Lehigh. Lo-
villa, Maurice, North Washington, Sum.
ner, Troy, Wayland. Minnesota: Ralston,
Battle Lake, Birch, Cooley, Brandon, Glib
| bon, Milan, Minnesota, Park Rapids, st.
Anthony Park, Winsted, Wisconsin,: Boil
tonville, Cashton, Hortonville, Hurley,
Marion, Pittsville. West Superior, Mon.
tana: Anaconda, Big Timber, Cooke, Cor
ham, Granite, Lewiston.
A civil service examination OF classes
two and three ($1,4O0 and 81, 6OO) for
promotions in the surgeon-general's office,
war department., has been. ordered for
Wednesday, July 10, next. There are SO
clerks of these grades to be examined.
The wooden a of.war %Iroquois, third
| rate, commanded by Richard P. Leary,
was at Panama May 81, and a communi.
cation was sent to the navy department
describing the condition OF the vessel as
very bad. The vessel will probably be con.
demned.
The following patents have been issued:
Minnesota-H. NJ. Bailey, Fairwater, land
roller; Elizabeth Fowble, st. Paul, cult.
nary apparatus; E. Haake. Winona, end
gate; J. l., Mcdonald, Shakopee, combined
fire escape. fire extinguisher and elevator;
J.. Waters, Minneapolis, steam generator;
| M. L. Whitney, Minneapolis, combined eli.
yelope and tag. Wisconsin-N. III. Ben
ton and H. L. Godding. Madison, sulky
harrow; w. D. Hunt, Brandon, end-gate;
C. E.. Stelier, Milwaukee,, knob attachment;